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Lester Shy
May 1, 2002

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
Are there any good instrumental, guitar-heavy country bands? I really love the sound of wanky, virtuosic country guitar, but I can't stand modern country vocals/songwriting.

Brad Paisley's album Play is close to what I'm looking for, but unfortunately most of his other stuff doesn't really sound like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yddYyKtO6rA

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HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

stomp clap


Cher Atkins is necessary listening. Also try some Duane Eddy, Buck Owens, and other Bakersville type stuff. I can't say I've heard of any exclusively instrumental country artists, but it's more common in the rockabilly side of the genre.

Oh and Jerry Reed is awesome but rarely instrumental. But you should listen to Jerry Reed regardless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8KBhnebwE

HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Oct 4, 2017

20 Blunts
Jan 21, 2017
Haha if you don't mind religious undertones, but you need long twangy jams, I like The Campbell Brothers. Its all on Youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q41UGLlUg8U

Ten minute pedal steel solos basically every song. Not quite in the realm of Brad Paisley...

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!

I'm a huge Buck Owens fan. The magic of his early stuff is Don Rich, who sadly passed away in 1974.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA2N7XbaG4I

The Buckaroos did an entire album of instrumentals and it is worth tracking down. Also look up a song called Buckaroo which is the intro they are playing here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg6x8fG2aIc

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

stomp clap


Every now and then I'll pick up a guitar and play a little bit of Buckaroo. It's funny because anybody within earshot will turn around and say "What's that song??" One of those ear worms that everyone recognizes but most people don't know the source of.

20 Blunts
Jan 21, 2017
It reminds me a lot of 'I Feel Fine' by the Beatles. Obviously the crossover occured directly with the cover of 'Act Naturally.' I've always been enamored by that small period in the mid-Sixties where pop and rock guitarists took as many cues from country as they did blues. Using chords and double stops to solo, only sparingly reverting to single note lines.

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!

Peetown Manning posted:

It reminds me a lot of 'I Feel Fine' by the Beatles. Obviously the crossover occured directly with the cover of 'Act Naturally.' I've always been enamored by that small period in the mid-Sixties where pop and rock guitarists took as many cues from country as they did blues. Using chords and double stops to solo, only sparingly reverting to single note lines.

And then Ray Charles comes along and starts recording songs by Eddie Arnold, George Jones and Buck Owens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJPwfkosk60


There was a recent Carter Family documentary that mentioned how Mother Maybelle wanted to record a cover of One Toke Over The Line until they told her what it actually meant.

Nomad42
Oct 6, 2017
I love all the stuff you guys are posting in this thread, so I figured I'd give you some of my favorites of the newer stuff. If any of this has been posted, I apologize. I'm brand new to the forum and learning the ropes!

This band, Hellbound Glory, has some serious attitude that I like blended in with that classic sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_qS3eNk2s

And this guy, The White Buffalo, is someone I'm seeing in Philly in December. He released a new album today and it's really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joAW2iw_m50

El Miguel
Oct 30, 2003

Nomad42 posted:



This band, Hellbound Glory, has some serious attitude that I like blended in with that classic sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_qS3eNk2s


Fabulous band - I am very much looking forward to their new record. Also check out The eXcavators - it's Leroy on guitar/drum/vox and another gent on slide, recorded in someone's living room. Very good.

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

stomp clap


White Buffalo is awesome and he is just as large in person as his voice suggests.

Coohoolin
Aug 5, 2012

Oor Coohoolie.
Chris Thile has a new album coming out and I'm very excited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX3wy3MPmco

High House Death
Jun 18, 2011

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

White Buffalo is awesome and he is just as large in person as his voice suggests.

I discovered White Buffalo through Sons of Anarchy and I was so happy when I saw photos. He's basically exactly what I pictured in my head.

eighty-four merc
Dec 22, 2010


In 2020, we're going to make the end of Fight Club real.
Anyone have any recommendations along lines of Margo Price, Nikki Lane or Elizabeth Cook?

Mayor Dave
Feb 20, 2009

Bernie the Snow Clown
Lindi Ortega is another artist in that vein.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDfdIoV745g

She's currently trying to Kickstart her next album, too.

KICK BAMA KICK
Mar 2, 2009

Not really relevant to anything but I gotta say "One of These Days" is both one of my favorite DBT songs and the biggest example of why I'm glad they learned to mix guitars better after their first two albums. The second verse is nearly inaudible.

Burning Rain
Jul 17, 2006

What's happening?!?!
Been into Joana Serrat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEzjgjoCR6k), Holly Macve (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHjsiJKbD2o) and Adia Victoria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1c_lXikoDI) lately

BeastOfExmoor
Aug 19, 2003

I will be gone, but not forever.

KICK BAMA KICK posted:

Not really relevant to anything but I gotta say "One of These Days" is both one of my favorite DBT songs and the biggest example of why I'm glad they learned to mix guitars better after their first two albums. The second verse is nearly inaudible.

Yea, that song is really wrecked by the terrible recording. The lead guitar just needs to disappear altogether. Even through Southern Rock Opera the recordings really could have used a little extra production.

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
I just got done watching the new Mike Judge show, Tales from the Tour Bus. The episode on Blaze Foley was pretty good and might be my favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69YCXgVdyR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_2CUj3y6Y

Frohike999
Oct 23, 2003

Bonzo posted:

I just got done watching the new Mike Judge show, Tales from the Tour Bus. The episode on Blaze Foley was pretty good and might be my favorite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69YCXgVdyR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_2CUj3y6Y

Yeah this show is great! Started it for the Jerry Lee Lewis episode but really they're all really well done.

Lester Shy
May 1, 2002

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDV2tJI3CMU

Not sure what to call this, but it's great and instrumental.

me your dad
Jul 25, 2006

Lester Shy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDV2tJI3CMU

Not sure what to call this, but it's great and instrumental.

I bet you'll like John Fahey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep3YHeYP1AM

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
It's not Christmas until I hear this .


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P37xPiRz1sg

Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro

Vienna Circlejerk posted:

Thank you for both of these! They are really great!

Salter Cane is from Brighton, England, and has a definite gothic country ballad style but with the addition of bouzouki.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ru83tfAEGE

Reminds me a bit of Nick Cave. I like it.

Good point keep talkin
Sep 14, 2011


Somehow I'd gone my whole life without George Jones ever being on my radar. Seeing as how he has about a million albums listed on Spotify, could you guys tell me the essentials to get started and what else to check out after I get through those?

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!

plz dont pull out posted:

Somehow I'd gone my whole life without George Jones ever being on my radar. Seeing as how he has about a million albums listed on Spotify, could you guys tell me the essentials to get started and what else to check out after I get through those?

I Am What I Am because it leads off with the song he's most famous for (and also one of the best country songs ever). This was also a bit of a comeback album for him. George didn't really develop is style until around the mid 60s and got better when he married and starting singing duets with Tammy Wynette.

I would just try the Best Of stuff and see what you like. IMHO his best albums are in the 90s but most fell under the radar because of Garth loving Brooks an Shania Twain.

One of my favorite songs I love to hear George sing is the duet with Patty Loveless. No one. NO one can harmonize or "slide" a note like George.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLafPfvDl6M

BeastOfExmoor
Aug 19, 2003

I will be gone, but not forever.

plz dont pull out posted:

Somehow I'd gone my whole life without George Jones ever being on my radar. Seeing as how he has about a million albums listed on Spotify, could you guys tell me the essentials to get started and what else to check out after I get through those?

The best Jones compilation I've found is called The Essential George Jones: The Spirit Of Country. Spotify has is, but it's missing a few songs including my favorite Jones song: A Good Year For The Roses. Apparently the original version of that song is completely absent from Spotify which is terrible.

With many of the golden-age country stars, albums aren't really the best place to start for their classic music. Country singles outsold albums until, I believe, the late 70s; long after albums had been in control of the rock and pop markets. Country albums in this era were often slapdash mix of succesful singles, covers of fairly contemporary material popularized by other artists, etc. There are a few exceptions (Gunfighters Ballads and Trail Songs and Songs for Rounders come to mind) but I don't think albums started to take hold until the more rock-oriented outlaw artists started releasing their classic material in the early 70s.

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
The album he and Merle Haggard made in '06 is a great one.

The saddest thing I have seen or heard was during Jones' televised wake. Vince Gill and Patty Loveless came out to tell a few stories and Sang Go Rest High On That Mountain. Vince is doing everything he can to keep it together but when he sings the line, "Son, your work on Earth is done" he completely loses it and starts ugly crying right there on stage.

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
Got turned on to this band today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfMlZoRWwgc

Colonel J
Jan 3, 2008

Lester Shy posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDV2tJI3CMU

Not sure what to call this, but it's great and instrumental.

I'm actively looking for music like this (I actually posted about Tyler earlier), but I'm having difficulty finding it. Might I suggest Panopticon's Tamarack Gold Returns, it is my favorite laid-back country-ish instrumental so far. There's also good playlist on Spotify called "Zen: Indie Folk for Focus" and it's pretty much filled with things that sound kinda like those artists. John Fahey mentioned earlier is also very good, and kinda fits with what's mentioned, but the style is very different.

If anyone has any more recommendations I'm all ears, as a prog-metal head, these days, I'm growing to like folkier music thanks to these guys. I actually listened to Johnny Cash's (I know, thread title) At Folsom Prison for the first time yesterday and I must say I had an awesome time. It's such a fun album, I need to watch the Walk the Line movie.

Colonel J fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jan 27, 2018

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!

Colonel J posted:

I'm actively looking for music like this (I actually posted about Tyler earlier), but I'm having difficulty finding it. Might I suggest Panopticon's Tamarack Gold Returns, it is my favorite laid-back country-ish instrumental so far. There's also good playlist on Spotify called "Zen: Indie Folk for Focus" and it's pretty much filled with things that sound kinda like those artists. John Fahey mentioned earlier is also very good, and kinda fits with what's mentioned, but the style is very different.

If anyone has any more recommendations I'm all ears, as a prog-metal head, these days, I'm growing to like folkier music thanks to these guys. I actually listened to Johnny Cash's (I know, thread title) At Folsom Prison for the first time yesterday and I must say I had an awesome time. It's such a fun album, I need to watch the Walk the Line movie.

You want something mellow or just instrumental? Tommy Emmanuel might be the best guitarist around right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV1e-iSo5As

A3th3r
Jul 27, 2013

success is a dream & achievements are the cream
Kenny Chesney rules my world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdeSLxz5TTE

Alvarez IV
Aug 3, 2010
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Can't post for 8 years!
Is there any good psychedelic country music? Not psychedelic folk, I know about that stuff. I'm looking for something that sounds like it should be sitar but is really a zither. Ideally from the 60s or 70s, but I won't say no if it's modern, it's just more interesting to me if it came out back when country music was seemingly (not really) less experimental. Somehow I feel like it's going to be Jesus music but that's alright with me.

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!

Alvarez IV posted:

Is there any good psychedelic country music? Not psychedelic folk, I know about that stuff. I'm looking for something that sounds like it should be sitar but is really a zither. Ideally from the 60s or 70s, but I won't say no if it's modern, it's just more interesting to me if it came out back when country music was seemingly (not really) less experimental. Somehow I feel like it's going to be Jesus music but that's alright with me.

I don't know if you are looking for an intro or more obscure groups.

The Flying Burrito Brothers which should then lead you to Gram Parsons.
Buffalo Springfield,
Crosby Still and Nash
Grateful Dead (well some songs and albums anyway)

Alvarez IV
Aug 3, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 8 years!

Bonzo posted:

I don't know if you are looking for an intro or more obscure groups.

The Flying Burrito Brothers which should then lead you to Gram Parsons.
Buffalo Springfield,
Crosby Still and Nash
Grateful Dead (well some songs and albums anyway)

Sorry, should have specified. I was looking for obscurities. If possible, closer to the Gram Parsons side of things than those other groups, I don't much like Buffalo Springfield, CSN, or the Dead.

KICK BAMA KICK
Mar 2, 2009

Already familiar with Jim Sullivan's UFO?

me your dad
Jul 25, 2006

Alvarez IV posted:

Is there any good psychedelic country music? Not psychedelic folk, I know about that stuff. I'm looking for something that sounds like it should be sitar but is really a zither. Ideally from the 60s or 70s, but I won't say no if it's modern, it's just more interesting to me if it came out back when country music was seemingly (not really) less experimental. Somehow I feel like it's going to be Jesus music but that's alright with me.

New Riders of the Purple Sage (Jerry Garcia was in this band, and you said you don't care for the Dead but it leaned much more country than the Dead.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJdq0OcRK3o

Some Ween material off 12 Golden Country Greats (in particular, the live recordings off the '96 Country Tour Sampler)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJGyNPrUSPI
(playlist here)

Not necessarily psychedelic, but oddball stuff:

Commander Cody (to some extent)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7hvDnWeswc

Some Little Feat maybe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k52A0nQH3E0

me your dad fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Feb 1, 2018

Tias
May 25, 2008

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The Garcia bluegrass and country stuff it pretty recommendable, I'll second that it's not like Dead( and a lot more interesting IMHO)

me your dad
Jul 25, 2006

Tias posted:

The Garcia bluegrass and country stuff it pretty recommendable, I'll second that it's not like Dead( and a lot more interesting IMHO)

Got any recommendations for Garcia's country material (other than New Riders of the Purple Sage)?

Tias
May 25, 2008

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me your dad posted:

Got any recommendations for Garcia's country material (other than New Riders of the Purple Sage)?

Oh it's been ages, but my dad's a head and introduced me to it back when, I'll try to ask him.

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BigFactory
Sep 17, 2002
Old and In The Way was his bluegrass band with David Grisman and Peter Rowan, but I wouldn't call them particularly psychadelic.

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